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Sohi responds to laughter at his bus driver past HOUSE OF COMMONS

Mocking shows ‘lack of respect’ for vulnerable drivers: Union Matt Kieltyka

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Metro | Edmonton Minister of Infrastructure Amarjeet Sohi says he is nothing but proud of his background, after a reference to his past as an ETS bus driver drew laughter in the House of Commons.

“I’m very proud that — that I was a bus driver serving my community and transporting moms to, you know, when they take their children to daycare or taking students to school,” Sohi told reporters in Ottawa Thursday.

“We all come from different backgrounds, and my background is what I’m proud of.”

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munity of Winnipeg bus driver Irvine Fraser, who was killed on Monday evening near the University of Manitoba.

Mark Tetterington, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 569 that represents Edmonton drivers, said the laughter shows the “lack of respect” that puts bus operators at increased risk of assault. “I think it’s terrible what they did. Terrible,” said Tetterington. “Minister Sohi has worked his way up from an operator all the way to the minister of infrastructure and a lot of what he knows is because of his time as an operator.”

Tetterington said Edmonton bus drivers — who every day confront angry passengers and people with substance abuse issues — are increasingly at risk of assault. A lack of respect “is a big part” of the problem. Seven bus drivers were assaulted on the job in Edmonton last month, he said. “No one should have to go to work and worry about not coming back,” said Tetterington.

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Data sheds light on sexual assault cases in Edmonton crime

By the numbers | Sexual assault statistics

Access to police records signals a ‘culture shift’

MacEwan University researcher Sandy Jung was given unprecedented access to Edmonton police’s sexual assault files from 2010 to 2014. Based on 2,569 occurrences of sexual assault against victims 16 years and older, she compiled these stats about sexual assaults in Edmonton.

49%

Matt Kieltyka

Metro | Vancouver Edmonton police’s openness to share sex assault records marks a culture shift within the department, according to a researcher with access to the data.

MacEwan University psychologist Sandy Jung presented the findings of her report — based on unprecedented access to five years’ worth of sexual assault cases — to the Edmonton Police Commission Thursday, giving the public an in-depth look at sexual assaults in the city.

By extracting data from 2,569 reported sexual assaults committed against non-child victims (ages 16 and up), Jung was able to create profiles of perpetrators and victims, track how many incidents lead to charges, determine risk factors and create models that could help predict a perpetrator’s chances of reoffending.

Jung hopes continued access to Edmonton Police Service files by the academic community will one day lead to practical policing strategies that allocate resources to where they’re most effective and help protect the public.

“Getting access to this kind of data is rare. It’s valuable to see what’s going on,” Jung

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Jung said it was EPS that approached her about the possibility of collaborating, not vice versa.

“It shows they want to know what they can do better,” she said.

“You’ve got people from the top down caring about this, that’s where you see the culture change.”

While the first part of her research focuses on providing an accurate snapshot of sexual assault cases since 2010, the

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second portion takes proven sexual violence risk measures in correctional settings and applies them to a sample of non-convicted perpetrators in the police files.

Jung wants to see if such models can one day be used to predict a perpetrator’s likelihood to re-offend, allowing police to focus more resources on high-risk suspects.

That would be a first for North America, she told the commission.

33.7% of sexual offences resulted in visible injury or hospitalization

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27% of sexual offences involved a victim who was unconscious

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Garland found guilty of murder court

Jurors suggest 3 consecutive life terms for convictions Lucie Edwardson

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Douglas Garland is escorted into a Calgary police station in connection with the disappearance of Nathan O’Brien and his grandparents on July 14, 2014. Garland has been found guilty on three counts of first-degree murder. Jeff McIntosh/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Douglas Garland has been found guilty on all three counts of firstdegree murder in the deaths of five-year-old Nathan O’Brien and his grandparents Kathy and Alvin Liknes.

Garland, 57, who was on trial over the last five weeks, was found guilty by a jury of 12 Calgarians on Thursday. The jury deliberated their decision for just over eight hours.

Family members of the victims wept as the verdicts were read out in court.

Ten of the jurors suggested the three 25-year sentences be served consecutively, for a total of 75 years. Two had no opinion

on the matter.

The judge will make the final call on the sentencing Friday.

In the summer of 2014, an Amber Alert gripped the city as citizens held their collective breath — hoping for the safe return of Nathan and his grandparents.

Nathan’s mother, Jennifer O’Brien, discovered the bloody crime scene and her parents and son missing the morning of June 30, 2014 — prompting police to open an exhaustive investigation that would span years.

The Crown told jurors in their opening statement of how Garland held a “petty grudge” against Alvin Liknes over a patent on an oil and gas pump he’d worked on before being fired in 2007.

The culmination of the allencompassing investigation lead by the Calgary Police Service — that brought in resources including the RCMP and CBSA — was revealed to Calgarians through testimony from 48 witnesses and the submission of 89 exhibits.

Following the verdict, Crown prosecutor Shane Parker told

media everyone who worked on this case put in the utmost effort to “achieve” justice for Alvin, Kathy and Nathan.

“We didn’t want to let the community or the family down.

We wanted to seek justice and I think the verdicts were just. Like everyone, we want to put our best work forward and I think we did that,” he said.

Parker said he spoke with the family after the trial.

“I think from them you’re not going to get an emotion such as great relief or anything like that.

I think for them they’re numb, they’re still processing,” he said.

“At the end of the day they’ve lost Kathy, they’ve lost Alvin and they’ve lost Nathan…It’s the loss of three critical people in their family…this decision doesn’t change that.”

Defence lawyers Kim Ross and Jim Lutz said it wasn’t the outcome they were hoping for.

“In a case like this there really are no winners. There is no good way to come out of this and put a positive spin on it,” said Lutz.

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Union fears online attacks on teachers Schools

‘Guaranteed’ educators will be harassed if names released Kevin Maimann

Metro | Edmonton The president of an Edmonton Catholic teachers union says it’s “guaranteed” that teachers working on Alberta’s curriculum rewrite will be harassed on social media if their names are released.

Some conservatives have been calling for the release of names, and PC leadership hopeful Jason Kenney has accused the NDP in a video on his Facebook page of doing the rewrite “in secret.”

“Now some poor Grade 3 teacher is going to be hammered (with), ‘You’re a communist, you’re a socialist.’

That’s what’s going to happen if these things are published,” said Edmonton Catholic Local 54 President Greg Carabine, referencing similar attacks against Premier Rachel Notley.

“When we did the last curriculum rewrite, no one even asked who was doing it, and it was almost the same group of people.”

Carabine, a high school chemistry teacher, piloted a previous curriculum review. He said teachers have to make lesson plans for the 20-30 days they will be out of class to work on the rewrite, which means 60 to 100 hours of work without pay.

Carabine also noted it’s the government that will have to approve the decisions in the end, not teachers themselves.

Wildrose Education Critic Leela Aheer has called for the release of the names of every association involved in the expert working groups, but emphasized she does not support releasing the names

When we did the last curriculum rewrite, no one even asked who was doing it, and it was almost the same group of people.

Greg Carabine

of teachers.

“There is no reason to go after particular names of teachers in my opinion, but I do want to know the names of these associations.

Because those folks are going to be influencing directions of teachers in the curriculum rewrite,” she said.

Alberta’s education ministry hopes to have new K-4 curriculum written by December 2018, Grades 5-9 by 2019, and Grades 9-12 by 2022.

education Board chair Michael Janz resigns The chair of the Edmonton Public School Board has announced he will leave his position at the end of the month after two years. Michael Janz wrote in a blog post late Wednesday that he is stepping down Feb. 28 to focus on fatherhood, after the birth of his son Miles. He will continue to serve as Ward F Trustee. contributed

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‘More people need to be more active’ health

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Physical activity trackers — think Fitbits — are an increasingly popular way to monitor your fitness.

The catch? You have to actually use them.

According to the 2017 Alberta Survey on Physical Activity about 38 per cent of Albertans own trackers — but only half of those actually use them.

Nora Johnston, director of the Alberta Centre for Active Living, said people often buy trackers in a short-lived commitment to fitness before throwing in the towel, in the same way that people tend to abandon New Years resolutions.

Nora Johnston is the director of the Alberta Centre for Active Living. kevin tuong/for metro

It’s a problem, she said, given how little exercise most people get.

“We in Alberta need a culture change so physical activity becomes the norm,” Johnston said. “Every hour people should get up and move.”

According to the Centre’s data, only 57 per cent of Albertans get enough physical activity, and one third sit for 10 or more hours a day.

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Johnston encourages people to think outside the gym.

“People equate working out with going to the gym, but taking my dog for a 30-minute walk every morning is good physical activity. Even dancing in your kitchen is good for your heart.”

“More people need to be more active, more often.”

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Harbin Gate future in doubt

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The Harbin Gate was built in 1987 with materials gifted from Edmonton’s sister city in northeast China. Many components are handcrafted, including two sculpted lions at the base. A watercolour painting of the gate was featured on a Canada Post commemorative stamp in 2013.

Kevin Maimann

Metro | Edmonton Some members of Edmonton’s Chinese community have doubts about the future of the Harbin Gate.

The gate, which marks the entrance to Chinatown at 102 Avenue and 97 Street, will be removed in the coming weeks to make way for the Valley Line LRT. A plan is in place to carefully remove the gate and resurrect it at another location in the future, but Chinese Benevolent Association chair Michael Lee is not entirely confident that will happen.

“The contractor seems to think that it can be done. But we realize for masonry work like that, having to take it apart sometimes you lose pieces that cannot be replaced, and you cannot get matching pieces to put back on,” Lee said.

“We are cautiously optimistic, but not totally convinced that it will definitely be accomplished. We just have to keep our fingers crossed and hope that what they promised

A plan is in place to carefully remove Harbin Gate and resurrect it at another location in the future. Kevin Tuong/For Metro

will come in without complications.”

Harbin, Edmonton’s sister city in China, donated materials and construction expertise for the gate three decades ago, and Lee said it’s a significant symbol of friendship between

the two cities.

The pieces of the gate will go into a city storage facility until a decision is made on where to resurrect it.

But Chinatown Business Association Executive Director Ratan Lawrence worries that if

a new location can’t be found now, it might not be found in the future either.

“I am very concerned about that. When it’s out of sight it’s out of mind, this is my concern.

It’s such a beautiful gate and there’s lots of meaning,” Law-

rence said.

“If they cannot find a location now, maybe in the future they still cannot find a location.”

TransEd has been contracted to build the LRT and will be in charge of removing the gate.

Preliminary work is set to start next week, but the gate won’t come down until late March or early April.

Company spokesperson Sue Heuman said the lions and other decorative pieces will be removed first, and the rest of the gate will be cut into three pieces and then moved to a city storage yard.

“We are being very careful with it,” Heuman said. “We do understand the significance of the gate, so our crews are going to be as careful as they can with it.”

Chinatown project manager Claudia Wong-Rusnak said the city is working closely with the benevolent association and there is a location in mind but a feasibility study has not been conducted yet.

The city will bring experts in from Harbin before doing an assessment.

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Alberta Infrastructure spokesman Dallas Huybregts says the province hired an engineering contractor to assess the homes for structural damage and en-

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All the homes for sale were deemed suitable for relocation, and they’re being sold on the government’s online auction site.

As of Wednesday afternoon, the highest bid listed was

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Bid to get Kenney kicked out fails Provincial Politics

Former federal minister to stay in race for PC leadership A last-ditch attempt to get Jason Kenney kicked out of the Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership race has failed.

Party president Katherine O’Neill ruled Thursday that a bid by another member of the board of directors to call an emergency meeting on the issue for Feb. 24 is out of order.

O’Neill says the next meeting of the board will proceed as scheduled on March 19, one day after the new leader is picked at a delegated convention in Calgary. “(O’Neill) has accepted a point of order ... and ruled that the emergency meeting was not within the purview of the vicepresident who called it, and so the meeting will not take place,” said party spokesperson Janice Harrington.

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Darcy Schumann, the party’s Calgary vice-president, called the meeting in an email sent Wednesday.

However, on Thursday, another member of the board said, in effect, another board member can’t call a meeting if the president has already put one on the agenda.

O’Neill agreed.

Kenney could not be immediately reached for comment but on Twitter wrote: “Thank you to PC Alberta President Katherine O’Neill for making the right call both procedurally and democratically. Let the members decide (the leadership vote).”

This was the second time in less than a week that a party member had tried to get Kenney expelled from the race based on his promise to try to join forces with the Wildrose party should he win.

It began last week with a formal complaint filed to the party by one of its members, Jeffery Rath, who has been supporting Kenney’s rival, Richard Starke.

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ney’s promise to dissolve the PCs to join forces with the rival Wildrose party violates party rules not to harm the PCs or their brand.

He also said that Kenney has denigrated the party in public comments and that those actions, along with his promise to dissolve the party if he wins, should prompt his expulsion from the race.

The party’s leadership election committee unanimously dismissed Rath’s complaint last weekend, but Schumann then called for a meeting of the board of directors, saying there were still outstanding issues on whether Kenney’s plan violates the party’s constitution.

O’Neill, in an email to the board Thursday, disagreed.

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Lethbridge police revise transgender policies A police force in southern Alberta says it has made changes to how officers should interact with transgender individuals.

The Lethbridge Police Service heard concerns and received an official complaint last April after an officer posted a comment on his personal Facebook page about a transgender woman.

Dillon Hargreaves had been at a ceremony at the Alberta legislature on women’s suffrage and the Facebook post suggested her attendance was inappropriate.

“I think Dillon is very brave, however, I believe this makes a mockery of important women’s issues,” the post said.

It also called Hargreaves a transgender male.

“I live my life as a woman and I identify as female,” Hargreaves said at the time. “Not all women have the same issues, but we can all work together to make a difference for women.”

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TransCanada refiles application in Nebraska TransCanada is once again seeking approval of its Keystone XL pipeline route in Nebraska in the latest move to push the polarizing project forward since getting a nod from U.S. President Donald Trump.

The energy company says the application it filed with the Nebraska Public Service Commission Thursday is the clearest path to achieving route certainty, adding that it expects a decision from the commission by the end of the year.

But with Nebraska the source of some of the fiercest resist-

ance to Keystone XL in the U.S., those opposed to the project are also looking to the commissions’ public hearing process to halt or reroute the project over concerns a spill could contaminate the Ogallala Aquifer and damage property.

The commission will have to determine if the pipeline carrying some 830,000 barrels a day of Alberta crude towards the U.S. Gulf Coast will serve the public interest, after former president Barack Obama decided it wasn’t in the national interest in 2015.

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Photographer Cory Johnn is having his work featured alongside other artists at a new outdoor installation.

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The Alley of Light Art Boxes, created by filmmaker and photographer Kellan Frost, was installed on the south wall of the Armstrong Block Building Thursday and is free to the public all weekend.

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CANADA 150 MURAL MOSAIC PROJECT Spend Family Day painting tiles that will be part of two large murals designed by Canadian artists for the 2017 Canada 150 Mural Mosaic Project.

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Indigenous community grapples with two tragedies

Aboriginal leaders say indigenous artist Moses Beaver has died under what they are calling unexplained circumstances.

Beaver, a renowned Woodlands artist, is believed to have died in a jail in Thunder Bay, Ont., Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler and Nibinamik First Nation Chief Johnny Yellowhead said Thursday in a statement.

Ontario’s Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services said a male inmate was found unresponsive in his cell at the Thunder Bay jail on Monday night.

Paramedics were called and the inmate was pronounced dead at a hospital, spokesman Andrew Morrison said in an email.

Beaver’s sister, Mary Wabasse, died Wednesday in a collision in

Fresh from his meeting in Washington, Justin Trudeau sought to bring Europe a message of reassurance Thursday about the anxiety it faces over Donald Trump’s antipathy towards the continent.

Trudeau’s recent visit to the White House, kicking off a whirlwind week of international travel, was closely watched in the European Union, which endured another round of bashing this week from Trump’s pick for ambassador to Brussels.

Trudeau’s host, Antonio Tajani, the president of the European Parliament, said Europe views Canada as an important bridge builder in its attempt to forge positive relations with the United States.

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“What I saw from the American president was a focus on getting things done for the people who supported him and who believe in him, while demonstrating that good relations with one’s neighbours is a great way of getting things done,” said Trudeau.

The prime minister called that “a positive example that everyone is going benefit from around the world.”

Trudeau said the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Europe would likely be ratified

by Canada by the spring and that’s when working people would begin to see the benefits of trade deals, which are currently the source of discontent across Europe and within the Trump administration.

Earlier, Trudeau showed the EU some much needed love in his highly-anticipated speech to the European Parliament, the day after it ratified CETA. But he also warned that if it doesn’t succeed, it could be the last deal of its kind.

“The European Union is a truly remarkable achievement, and an unprecedented model for peaceful co-operation. Canada knows that an effective European voice on the global stage isn’t just preferable — it’s essential,” Trudeau said in the first address by a Canadian prime minister to the European Parliament.

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The Lake Superior Art Gallery in Thunder Bay says on its website that Beaver was a self-taught artist who worked with acrylic on canvas, Indian Ink on paper and watercolour.

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The Trump administration said in court documents on Thursday it wants a pause in the legal fight over its ban on travellers from seven predominantly Muslim nations, so it can issue a replacement ban as it strives to protect the nation from terrorism.

Details of the new proposal were not provided in the filing or at a wide-ranging news conference by Trump. But lawyers for the administration said in the filing that a ban that focuses solely on foreigners who have never entered the U.S. — instead of green card holders already in the U.S. or who have travelled abroad and want to return — would pose no legal difficulties.

“In so doing, the president will clear the way for immediately protecting the country rather than pursuing further, potentially time-consuming litigation,” the filing said.

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The leaks are real. But the news about them is fake. The White House is a fine-tuned machine. Russia is a ruse.

Donald Trump’s first solo news conference as president has no rivals in recent memory. For all the trappings of the White House and traditions of the forum, his performance was one of a swaggering, blustery campaigner, armed with grievances and primed to unload on his favourite targets.

In nearly an hour and a half at the podium, Trump bullied reporters, dismissed facts and then cracked a few caustic jokes — a combination that once made the candidate irresistible cable TV fodder. He went even further, blaming the media for all but sinking his not-yet-launched attempt to “make a deal” with Moscow. Trump used the event to try to claw his administration back from the brink after a defeat in court and the resignation of his top national security adviser.

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ference that a new order would come next week.

“I will not back down from defending our country. I got elected on defence of our country,” he said.

The administration asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to hold off on making

any more decisions related to the lawsuit filed by the states of Washington and Minnesota until the new order is issued and then toss out the decision keeping the ban on hold.

Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson said the federal government was

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Imagine every fear you had was proved founded, and every belief proved true. No need to stretch the bounds of your assumptions. No need to consider how the terrain of life might shift from a different point of view.

That — your own personal omniscience — is the promise of this era of crumbling trust: And for enough of us, it seems, it just feels too good to pass up.

Edelman’s trust barometer, published this week, shows in polling what anyone paying attention has already seen: Canada is going the way of the U.K., the U.S., and France in tilting dangerously towards a populist moment. Like our Western neighbours, “trust in business, media, and the government is in trouble.”

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The sad fact is that we are often wrong. Admitting that is the only route to progress. among the latter is via a simple test: Muslims. As in: Are you afraid of them?

As in: Did the Quebec mosque shooting fill you with dread, until you learned it was committed by a young white man with white supremacist, populist ideas?

Here in the U.S., people don’t worry so much about how toddlers with guns accidentally killing people, or the hundreds (528, according to the Southern Poverty Law Centre) of white supremacist hate groups, or the one in five women who’ve been raped or seriously physically assaulted by a partner, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

Those, we understand, are truly American dangers, and need not warrant fear. But Muslims? The cultivated (and irrational) terror of them can land you in the White House.

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19 per cent of Americans still believe they’re really Christian. But when Muslims commit violence, that nearly doubles to 37 per cent, and fully 55 per cent of Republicans.

Hence Trump’s Muslim ban campaign promise. And opposition from Kellie Leitch and The Rebel, Canada’s wannabe Breitbart, to a bipartisan bill in the House of Commons to condemn Islamophobia.

The sad fact is that we are often wrong. Admitting that is the only route to progress.

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‘Employers and workers standing together’ to support immigrants The heart of Philadelphia’s Italian Market was uncommonly quiet.

Fine restaurants in New York, San Francisco and the nation’s capital closed for the day. Grocery stores, food trucks, coffee shops, diners and taco joints in places like Chicago, Los Angeles and Boston shut down.

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first step up the economic ladder for newcomers to America. Restaurant owners with immigrant roots of their own were among those acting in solidarity.

“The really important dynamic to note is this is not antagonistic, employee-against-employer,” said Janet Murguia, president of the Hispanic rights group National Council of La Raza. “This is employers and workers standing together, not in conflict.”

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The boycott was aimed squarely at President Trump’s efforts to step up deportations, build a wall at the Mexican border and close the door to many travellers.

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‘D’ RIGHT VITAMIN FOR YOU

Soaking up the sunshine vitamin. As post-secondary students head off on spring break down south and the rest of us look forward to warmer weather (any minute now), we look at the science behind vitamin D, one of the nutrients your body needs most.

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Many tissues and organs, including the brain, heart, kidneys, colon and muscles have vitamin D receptors.

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Both minerals are vital for building and maintaining healthy bone structure.

If vitamin D is low, the body will take calcium stores from the bones, which could lead to fractures.

If vitamin D is too high, the kidney and other soft tissues, including the heart, lungs and blood vessels, could calcify.

Unbalanced diet French hamsters ate their babies alive when fed a cornheavy diet, researchers have found. The study was looking for downsides of limited crop availability.

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Harvard, MIT hang on to lucrative gene-editing patent In a highly anticipated decision that could sway the fortunes of a handful of biotechnology companies, the U.S. federal patent office has turned back a challenge to patents covering a widely used method for editing genes.

The office’s board of appeals ruled Wednesday that the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard can keep patents it had been awarded for a technique called CRISPR that lets scientists alter DNA within cells.

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One company that has licensed Broad’s technology, Editas Medicine Inc., saw its shares jump by 29 per cent Wednesday.

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The patent dispute involved work led by Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute and Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier at Berkeley.

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work to warrant its own patents.

The appeals board, however, concluded that the Broad work was not simply an obvious extension of the research described in the Berkeley patent application. So Broad’s patent coverage is different from Berkeley’s, the board ruled.

Jacob Sherkow, who specializes in patent law for matters of biological sciences at the New York Law School, said he thinks it would be worthwhile for Berkeley to take the matter to a federal appeals court.

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Fist Fight the latest study on culture of the student body Richard Crouse

For Metro Canada Fist Fight features so much bad language it completely outpaces f-word aficionados Tarantino and Scorsese combined. Accompanying the cussing are bad behaviour, violence and loads of oh-nohe-didn’t jokes all set against the backdrop of the end of semester at the rough-’n’-tumble Roosevelt High School.

Trying to hang on until the final bell rings are well-meaning English teacher Andy Campbell (Charlie Day) and Ron Strickland (Ice Cube), the world’s toughest history teacher. When Campbell accidentally gets Strickland fired a bad day goes from crappy to cruddy. “I’m going to fight you,” the amped-up Strickland says, looking for some street justice.

“After school, meet me in the parking lot.”

As the #teacherfight spreads across social media, a crowd gathers in the parking lot to witness the carnage. After some handto-hand combat Campbell and Strickland come to terms with one another, learning important lessons with each punch.

My grade nine homeroom teacher Mrs. Armstrong wouldn’t

recognize Roosevelt High as the kind of school she taught in, but it’s familiar territory for Hollywood, which has long used school hallways as a study of teen life. Relationships between students and teachers have fuelled movies like Blackboard Jungle and To Sir with Love, but just as interesting is the culture of the student body.

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All the best high school movies — Election, Heathers, Dazed and Confused and Mean Girls — share that sentiment. The names, schools and places may change but it is the labours of students and teachers, like Fist Fight’s Andy Campbell and Ron Strickland, to find themselves and figure out what it all means that makes them interesting and relatable. As we learned studying Aristotle in philosophy class, “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom,” and, in Hollywood’s case, entertainment too.

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It’s the emotional intensity of The Breakfast Club that makes it one of the most insightful high school films ever. Thirtytwo years after its release it still feels fresh, but for my money one of the best looks at life in the halls comes from Emma Stone’s film Easy A. The movie begins with the voiceover, “The rumours of my promiscuity have been greatly exaggerated.” It’s Olive (Stone), a clean-cut high school senior who tells a little white lie about losing her virginity. When the gossip mill gets a hold of the info, her life takes a parallel course to the heroine of the book she is studying in English class — The Scarlet Letter. At first she embraces her

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Director cites John Hughes as core influence of newest work Richard Crouse

For Metro Canada Director Richie Keen calls his debut film Fist Fight “a rated-R John Hughes film.”

The story of two teachers, played by Ice Cube and Charlie Day, who settle their differences in the schoolyard after the final bell is more rough ‘n’ tumble than anything the Sixteen Candles director ever attempted but Keen says he learned from Hughes’ habit of making sure the characters were true to themselves.

“John Hughes was one of my idols and he was so good at doing sweet moments.

You’d see a movie and be laughing your ass off and then there’d be a real, sweet,

great moment.

“I have my radar up that the heart, especially in this movie, comes from a very real character place. I feel like a very typical note that a director and writer might get is, ‘We need more heart.’

For me what they are really saying is that they are not connecting with the characters enough so I was very careful. It’s an R-rated comedy about two guys punching ... each other a lot so I didn’t try and infuse false, sweet moments.”

Hughes’ influence dates back to childhood.

“I grew up in the ‘80s in suburban Chicago, in Highland Park, Illinois,” he says.

“I just couldn’t believe they were making movies in and around my hometown. I was a little kid and John Hughes started coming into town.

In Ferris Bueller there were some great scenes in my hometown. I would hop on my bike and I’d go watch them film. That’s how close it was happening. In high school it was Home Alone. I thought it was cool and this is going to sound strange

Richie Keen directs actor Ice Cube in Fist Fight. contributed

but every time I was on or near a set I was like, ‘This is where I should be.’ It just lit me up in a way that other things didn’t.”

For years Keen made commercials, short films and was the house director on the hit TV comedy It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia but says “I had no chance of getting this or any movie.”

After much cajoling he landed the Fist Fight gig, with just one proviso. He had to convince Ice Cube he was the man for the job. With just one day’s notice he flew to Atlanta to meet the Barbershop star.

“I had dressed in a nice outfit as my Jewish parents had taught me to do when you have a job interview,” he says. “I started drinking coffee and as time passed I started getting more jittery and more sweaty and by the time Ice Cube was waiting in the lobby I was in a t-shirt and sweaty.”

Intimidated by the rap legend — “The guy wrote No Vaseline,” he says. “It’s intimidating to meet him.”

— he pitched for 45 minutes,

finally ending with, “‘Cube, are we doing this?’ Cube smiled and leaned back in his chair and thought for a second and said, ‘You know what? You flew out here at a moment’s notice. I love what you had to say. Let’s go make a movie motherBLEEPER.’”

I really wanted to shine a light on the public school system. Not to be heavy about it but I wanted to ground it in something.

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The result is a raunchy movie with Ice Cube, some John Hughes style heart and even some social commentary.

“I really wanted to shine a light on the public school system. Not to be heavy about it but I wanted to ground it in something.”

Karlie Kloss took to Twitter to apologize for “participating in a shoot that was not culturally sensitive.” AP File fashion

Model Karlie Kloss is sorry for Vogue geisha photoshoot White model Karlie Kloss is apologizing for appearing in a fashion spread in Vogue’s diversity issue styled as a geisha, calling it culturally insensitive.

Kloss, who has Danish and German roots, was photographed by Mikael Jansson in a black wig and wears a kimono in one shot and poses beside a sumo wrestler in another. In its introduction, Vogue writes that the spread is “paying homage

to geisha culture.”

Kloss took to Twitter on Wednesday to apologize for “participating in a shoot that was not culturally sensitive.

My goal is, and always will be, to empower and inspire women. I will ensure my future shoots and projects reflect that mission.”

Vogue’s March issue has generated social media backlash.

Intended to celebrate women’s

diversity, the cover features seven models of different ethnic backgrounds, but some say it isn’t as inclusive as it could be.

This isn’t the first time Kloss has had to apologize for cultural appropriation. In 2012 she was “deeply sorry” after wearing a Native American feather headdress, suede vest and a skirt at a Victoria Secret fashion show. the associated press

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Samurai’s time to shine

Those who live by the way of the sword are enjoying a bit of a renaissance, as the feudal Japanese warriors get a moment in the spotlight. Here are five examples of cutting-edge samurai entertainment that shows ninjas better make some room for their fellow warriors. torstar news service

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Nioh Already being hailed in reviews as the first must-own PS4 exclusive video game of this young year, this just-released action role-playing video game makes you a European warrior who travels to Japan in search of a mystical spirit and, along the way, engages in awesome sword fights with all manner of demons and enemies.

Blazing Samurai Scheduled to arrive in August, this animated film features the voices of Samuel L. Jackson, Michelle Yeoh, Ricky Gervais and more, with Michael Cera playing a hapless dog who dreams of becoming a true samurai to save the town that he lives in.

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Kubo and the Two Strings This 2016 stop-motion animated feature is the lovely story of the titular character and his magical musical instrument who, as part of his adventures, must solve the death of his father, the greatest samurai who ever lived. It is up for two Academy Awards, including Best Animated Feature, and is only the second animated film ever nominated for Best Visual Effects.

This beloved Cartoon Network series about a time-displaced samurai battling the demon Aku aired for four seasons from 2001 to 2004. It returns for its fifth and final season March 11 as part of the network’s Adult Swim block of programming, which targets older viewers. Creator Genndy Tartakovsky returns and trailers point to a darker storyline for our sword-wielding hero.

Adult Swim is also live-streaming all the old episodes on its site.

This Ubisoft video game — which the Toronto studio had a hand in building — is a take on The Ultimate Warrior, as it pits factions of knights, Vikings and samurai against each other. An open beta version of the game was available last weekend.

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Phil Grabsky’s I, Claude Monet brings the French master’s most iconic works to movie theatres, including Impression at Sunrise (left) and The Japanese Footbridge. contributed

Helping Monet make a new impression cineplex series

How the movie theatre is being turned into a fine art gallery Steve Gow

For Metro Canada For many people, going to the cinema to admire old paintings probably sounds pretty boring.

But veteran filmmaker Phil Grabsky sees it another way.

“The music of Mozart or the paintings of Monet are extraordinary and something we can indulge ourselves in and be motivated by,” insisted the

award-winning director recently from London. “And at the cinema, where you’re not distracted by your phone for 90 minutes, you’ll be moved by it.”

Sparked by this theory, Grabsky has teamed up with international galleries to bring art lovers unprecedented access to the world’s greatest artwork on the big-screen. His latest film — I, Claude Monet — uses 2,500 narrated letters to accentuate the stunning work of one of French Impressionism’s founding fathers.

“Obviously I’ve got lovely visuals to work with,” said Grabsky.

“It’s a film to see in the cinema because many of us know some of the works of

Claude Monet but to look at them again fresh, you do get a sense of just why he was an extraordinary painter.”

Premiering on Feb. 22 as part of Cineplex’s In The Gallery event series — I, Claude Monet may shed insight on the French painter but it’s also about introducing art to the mainstream.

“We’re trying to find another audience that doesn’t want to see Thor,” said Cineplex Events VP Brad LaDouceur, whose aim was to boost attendance on quieter evenings through those “who want to see artists.”

“You go to the movies and it’s a great way to escape the everyday world, but what’s great about the programming

that Cineplex events does is how we can add to your knowledge of a genre, of an artist or a ballet company.”

Going to today’s theatre to view 19th century compositions is also a relatively modern affair. Not only are crowds booming for the gallery series but the experience may actually aid the enjoyment of the art itself.

“I went to see the Mona Lisa (and) I felt like I was being pushed out,” recalled LaDouceur of a crowded visit to The Louvre in Paris. “But when you see your first gallery presentation, you don’t have the crowds (and) you’re going to get a high-definition shot of some of the most brilliant pieces.”

ARTISTIC APPRECIATION On making Claude Monet more mainstream: “I’m really trying to give you a pleasurable, educational entertaining experience,” said director Phil Grabsky.

“These films aren’t supposed to be hard work. You’re supposed to come out thinking it’s amazing what we as human beings can do with paint.”

Bringing art to you “As a father who has a son who is focusing on art, for him it’s been fantastic because he doesn’t have to fly anywhere,” said Cineplex’s

Brad LaDouceur of the In The Gallery series. “He can see some of the great works and get an education at the exact same time.”

Why a movie on Monet?

“Impression at Sunrise is one of those paintings that many of us had on our walls or seen on endless postcards. But when you see the actual spots and then get a sense of what he did, it just heightens your appreciation for him.” steve gow/for metro

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Grouches, grit, cures and cats A little bit more about four movies that are being released this weekend

A Man Called Ove (Starring Rolf Lassgård, Ida Engvoll, Filip Berg and Bahar Pars; Directed by Hannes Holm; 116 minutes; PG) A Hollywood adaptation of this Swedish heart-tugger is probably inevitable, especially if it wins the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film later this month at the Academy Awards.

It won’t be necessary. A Man Called Ove shamelessly, but also quite movingly, hits all the required notes of the most pandering of feel-good Tinseltown sagas, with its story of a grouchy guy who turns out to have a heart of gold and a past worth sighing over.

Writer/director Hannes Holm, working from a popular novel by Fredrik Backman, eschews the astringent and absurdist comedy of such Scandinavian contemporaries as Roy Andersson and Bent Hamer.

He instead makes a comic Kumbaya, embracing a

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world view that would make Donald Trump shudder: one where neighbours of varying nationalities, sexual orientations, physical abilities and ages learn to happily get along together, even if they do a fair bit of crabbing beforehand.

A movie this Hollywood might just win the Oscar, but all the tears and smiles are earned.

Land of Mine (Starring Roland Moller, Louis Hofmann; Directed by Martin Zandvliet; 90 minutes; 14A ) The Second World War is over in Europe and for the Danish people, oppressed and ill-treated during a

long German occupation, it’s payback time.

Sergeant Rasmussen is given command of a massive mine-clearing operation along the country’s idyllic beaches, using young, untrained German soldiers to do the dirty (and deadly) work.

The movie, based on actual events, was deservedly nominated for a best foreign film Oscar.

Writer/director Martin Zandvliet masterfully creates a suspenseful, sorrowful and memorable tale.

A Cure For Wellness (Starring Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs; Directed

by Gore Verbinski; 146

minutes; 18A ) Is there a cure for a disappointing ending?

Because A Cure for Wellness has a bad case of it and that’s a shame because the film shows such initial promise.

Dane DeHaan plays a young, ambitious corporate exec from a big U.S. firm sent on a mission to a Swiss clinic high in the Alps to retrieve a senior honcho whose presence is urgently required.

He finds himself being sucked into a strange and

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creepy vortex and intrigued with a free-spirited young woman. Bojan Bazelli’s cinematography creates an eerie sense of place, setting the stage for the unravelling of the mystery of what’s in the water that makes the clinic denizens so disinclined to get better and go home. But the film is overstuffed and overlong, collapsing under the weight of a silly conclusion.

4 Kedi (Directed by Ceyda Torun; 80 minutes; G) Colourful and ancient,

Istanbul is also home to thousands of street cats.

They roam the city, queens and kings of all they survey, occasionally deigning to cuddle up to the humans who provide them with food, shelter here and there, copious amounts of love and even the occasional antibiotic.

Turkish-born director Ceyda Torun, in her first featurelength documentary, and cinematographer Charlie Wuppermann provide a cat’s-eye view of the world that showcases both the warm-hearted people of this ancient Turkish city and the seamless integration of its felines into everyday life. torstar news service

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Paquin’s dark and twisty CBC role interview

Actress plays a fearless detective in Bellevue Melita Kuburas

Metro | Canada Anna Paquin likes playing women who are free to make mistakes. Her latest character makes a lot of them.

In CBC’s upcoming serialized thriller Bellevue (debuting Monday, Feb. 20 at 9 p.m.)

Paquin portrays Annie Ryder, a woman who approaches her job as a detective without much care for her personal safety. To get closer to a source, she gets drunk and high with him in a hotel room; she has a creepy stalker, yet she follows his clues alone to a dark shed in the woods.

“She’s brave in a way that comes from being quite reckless with her own well-being and not ultimately necessarily being that attached to her own

life in some ways,” Paquin tells Metro in a recent interview in Toronto.

The show follows the 28-year-old single mom in this small, Canadian mining town as she tries to locate a missing teenager — a transgender star hockey player. But the case appears to be related to a murder that occurred in Bellevue (a fictional town, but the show was shot in Quebec) 20 years earlier, and is linked to the suicide of Annie Ryder’s father.

“I think that the trauma of having been a kid whose parent committed suicide — and obviously that’s not a situation I know anything about personally — but certainly that seems to track as far as Annie having been a bit careless in the way that she lives her life.

She doesn’t always act like the stereotypical perfect cop or parent,” Paquin says.

In other words, she’s a decent human making some bad choices, which, for those who have followed Paquin’s career, might sound familiar.

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situation after another, thanks to her romantic relationships with vampires. Trade in the Keds and mini skirts for black boots and a cargo jacket, and you get Annie Ryder, a kind of Canadian Sookie Stackhouse.

It’s exactly the type of flawed female protagonist Paquin is drawn to.

“If female characters make questionable choices in some aspects of their lives or their parenting, there’s an amazing tendency or need to then punish that character. And it doesn’t really happen in male plotlines,” Paquin says.

Bellevue deals with some dark aspects of humanity —

betrayal, substance abuse, murder — but it doesn’t do so in a didactic, “message-y” kind of way, says Paquin.

“I think that entertainment has a tendency to put women into very defined boxes. I personally found that really boring to watch, and even more boring to do.”

Small-town struggle familiar to actor Shawn Doyle, who plays the police chief in CBC’s Bellevue, understands the small-town struggle too well. The actor (House of Cards, Big Love) grew up in Wabush, Labrador, an iron ore mining town that was constantly under threat of the industry going bust, as it does in the show.

“My parents sold their house back to the company for $5,000 when we left,” says Doyle, who now has a house in Toronto.

Wabush became a boomtown again, however the mines closed in 2014 devastating the local economy. “Now there are all these people who not only are they upside down on their mortgages and will never get money back for the houses that they bought, but they’re homeless. It’s a really devastating situation,” Doyle says. melita kuburas/metro

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Great expectations, grouches, grit and an ultimately ineffective cure The Great Wall (Starring Matt Damon, Jing Tian, Pedro Pascal; Directed

by Zhang Yimou; 103 minutes; 14A) Monstrous Chinese blockbuster The Great Wall shows its devotion to American cinema from the get-go, opening with a desert horseback pursuit straight out of a classic 1950s Western. And hey, one of those fleeing cowboys is Matt Damon.

But this is 12th-century China and Damon is no cowpoke, he’s mercenary soldier and master archer William Garin, whose wavering accent would indicate he has ridden in from Cleveland by way of Denmark.

The largest-budget movie ever shot in China, The Great Wall marks the first English-language production from master filmmaker Zhang Yimou.

Unfortunately, the gorgeous subtlety of Zhang’s mesmerizing style is carried off with the first wave of man-eating, green-blooded monsters.

This is a movie that owes much to gaming style, with

Danish people, oppressed and ill-treated during a long German occupation, it’s payback time. Sergeant Rasmussen is given command of a massive mine-clearing operation along the country’s idyllic beaches. The movie, based on actual events, was deservedly nominated for a best foreign film Oscar.

furious action, in-your-face flying weapons and an uncomplicated story.

A Man Called Ove (Starring Rolf Lassgård, Ida Engvoll, Filip Berg and Bahar Pars; Directed

by Hannes Holm; 116 minutes; PG) A Hollywood adaptation of this Swedish hearttugger is probably inevitable, especially if it wins the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film later this month at the Academy Awards.

It won’t be necessary. A Man Called Ove shamelessly, but also quite movingly, hits all the required notes of the most pandering of feel-good Tinseltown sagas, with its story of a grouchy guy who turns out to have a heart of gold and a past worth sighing over.

Land of Mine (Starring Roland Moller, Louis Hofmann; Directed by Martin Zandvliet; 90 minutes; 14A ) The Second World War is over in Europe and for the

4 A Cure For Wellness (Starring Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs; Directed

by Gore Verbinski; 146 minutes; 18A ) Is there a cure for a disappointing ending?

Because A Cure for Wellness has a bad case of it and that’s a shame because the film shows such initial promise.

Dane DeHaan plays a young, ambitious corporate exec from a big U.S. firm sent on a mission to a Swiss clinic high in the Alps to retrieve a senior honcho whose presence is urgently required.

But the film is overstuffed and overlong, falling under the weight of a silly conclusion. torstar news service

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New Orleans is entering the height of its pre-Lenten Carnival season, culminating on Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, which falls on Feb. 28 this year. Visitors face an abundance of choices on how to take it all in. Revel in the bawdy French Quarter or catch a parade? March in a parade? Wear a costume? Do it all? the associated press

See the costumes

Be in a parade Getting a spot in a Carnival parade is the ultimate participatory experience. Some of the old-line parade “krewes” are famous for their exclusivity but others are open to anyone who can afford it, although spots are limited and should be reserved in advance. Costs include membership fees, costumes and “throws” (beads, little stuffed toys, etc.).

Watch a parade There are dozens of New Orleans area parades. The major ones, with marching bands and masked riders who throw beads and trinkets from elaborate floats, begin this year on Feb. 17. Most follow a route along historic St. Charles Avenue onto Canal Street, the broad downtown boulevard at the edge of the French Quarter — although the giant floats of Endymion, the celebrity-studded procession set for Feb. 25, lumber through the Mid-City neighbourhood.

Often overlooked are the smaller processions. For instance, Krewe du Vieux’s satirical and raunchy parade with smaller, hand-drawn floats rolls through the French Quarter and neighbouring areas on Feb. 11. A week later, sci-fi, fantasy and horror fans don costumes evoking a variety of pop culture icons from Ewoks to zombies for the Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus and stroll through Marigny.

Mardi Gras is one big costume party. Some outfits are simple: multi-colored wigs, glittery masks, oversized hats. Others are elaborate: shimmering bodysuits with feather headdresses fanning out like peacock tails. Find the most intricate and outrageous on display at the annual Bourbon Street awards at the intersection of Bourbon and St. Ann.

Behave yourself

Wear a costume Feathered masks, funny hats and boas are available at souvenir shops and from vendors along the parade route. Many visitors make their own. In 2011, coveralls splotched with black were among the outfits lampooning BP after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Still others go for professionally made store-bought or rented regalia.

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30 Weekend, February 17-20, 2017 travel notes tourism records, cruise ship awards and a proposal for a new wall in paris Caribbean sets tourism record

Disney Dream wins Cruise Critic award

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The cruise ship Disney Dream won best overall large ship for the third consecutive year in the Cruise Critic Cruisers’ Choice Awards.

The awards are based on ratings submitted with thousands of reviews to CruiseCritic.com from travellers during a 12-month period. Disney Cruise Line scored tops in eight categories.

Paris authorities say they want to replace the metal security fencing around the Eiffel Tower with a more visually appealing glass wall. The proposal will be examined by the city’s sites commission and then needs approval from the environment ministry. The proposal is part of a $418 million project to modernize the 128-year-old tower.

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Caribbean tourism officials say the region received a record number of visitors last year as arrivals topped 29 million.

With a majority of visitors coming from the U.S., officials expect a slight drop in tourism due to uncertainty surrounding actions the president may take. The region also saw growth in visitors from Europe and the U.K.

Panorama: More than meets the eye

A few hours’ drive from Calgary in the interior of British Columbia, Panorama more than earns its moniker with stunning views of both the Rocky and Purcell Mountains. But just as plentiful as its scenic vistas are the ways you can make the most of this natural Canadian wonderland. KAREN KWAN/FOR METRO

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Big-name resorts draw big crowds. But less-popular destinations can also offer plenty of fun, along with shorter lift lines. If you’re looking for an alternative to Whistler or Banff, here are four resorts as suggested by Cheapflights.ca: Mont Blanc, Que., an hour north of Montreal Smaller and more laid-back than Tremblant, MontSainte-Anne and Le Massif.

Mont Blanc has one of Quebec’s largest ski schools and one of the highest verticals in the Laurentians. skimontblanc.com Calabogie Peaks, Ont., an hour west of Ottawa Along with 32 hectares of skiable area and three terrain parks, the resort offers snowshoe treks, ice skating and access to an extensive network of snowmobile trails. A series of après-ski live music shows runs to March 25. calabogie.com

Swish down the slopes

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Bejewel with beads

With a variety of runs, novice to expert skiers and boarders alike can get their adrenaline rush at Panorama.

Hit the mountain during an inversion, where the colder air gets trapped in the valley, and snow bunnies are blessed with warmer temps at the summit with a magical feeling of floating above the clouds.

For warm-up breaks, pop into the charming huts peppered on the hills for a bite of raclette or some hot chocolate.

Advanced skiers should snap up the opportunity to heliski, available right at the ski resort through RK Heliski.

Explore a scenic four-kilometre trail of rolling terrain on your own or on a guided hike with only the noise of the snow crunching beneath snowshoes (available for rent from the Nordic Centre). Surrounded by evergreens weighed down heavily with snow you’ll feel like you’ve stepped into Narnia; while there won’t be any centaurs, do keep your eyes peeled for animal tracks.

Cheese lovers, you think you’re ready for this heli? Book a helifondue adventure so you can enjoy the ultimate après-ski experience. Once the lifts close, you’re helicoptered up to the summit where at the Summit Hut at 8,000 feet. As the sun sets, indulge in wine and a gourmet fondue feast made of a perfected blend of cheeses and finish off with fruit and chocolate fondue. Then, strap on a headlamp and your skis or board and follow the guides down the eerily dark slopes to the village.

Speed demons can get their fix just a five-minute drive from the village where a fleet of snowmobiles awaits at Toby Creek Adventures. Make your way up the side of the mountain in stages, following your guide around many switchbacks. A hot chocolate and cookie break at the Paradise Hut alpine cabin will warm you up for playtime tearing around the powder bowl.

When you need a break from Jack Frost nipping at your nose, skip the hot pools for après-ski and instead get your creative juices flowing with a course that’ll have you making beads and jewelry using an open flame at Saffire Bead and Flameworks. This four-year-old business will teach you the basics and also carries work by artisans if you’d rather shop local than get crafty.

Karen Kwan was a guest of Destination BC and Panorama Mountain Resort, who did not pay for or review this story.

Castle Mountain, Alta., near Waterton Lakes National Park, two hours south of Calgary Backcountry skiing via snowcat takes users to wide bowls and gladed chutes.

There are also more than 75 trails on two mountains, plus three terrain parks. skicastle.ca.

Fernie Alpine Resort, B.C., about 1.5 hours east of Cranbrook Over 140 trails are spread over 1,000-plus hectares.

Activities include snowshoeing, guided winter fat biking, cross-country skiing and cat skiing. skifernie.com THE CANADIAN PRESS

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I love to share my adventures on Instagram but sometimes feel my snaps are inadequate compared other accounts I follow. So I asked some of favourite Instagrammers for advice on taking and posting the best travel photos. / loren christie for metro

Tell a story I met @marcus.mhd on a group trip to Panama a year ago. His shots of a recent trip to Botswana were mesmerizing. His tips are simple but important; look for a story and think about a message you would like to convey. He suggests you fill your frame with one clear focal point. He also says not to use the Instagram app to take your picture but use your camera or phone as they have more features.

Shoot straight on

Paris-based freelancer travel journalist @patriciagajo loves symmetry. ”I like shooting objects by standing directly in front of them,” she says. “If I’m looking at a building, I’ll stand exactly in the middle of it and shoot it dead on.”

Blemishes add interest

@jennweatherhead looks for imperfections; chipped paint, crooked doorways and uneven lines. For her the flaws add character and make a photo more interesting. She always has an eye open for the not-so-perfect scene.

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Find your light

@connorremus likes to use the apps VSCO Cam, Instasize and Boomerang.

“Most apps are mobile friendly and can include tools such as cropping, filters, airbrushing, saturation, white balance and sharpening.”

“Most photographers will say lighting is everything,” says @ connorremus, a Toronto-based photography student. “This is true even when working from a mobile device. A perfect lighting scenario should eliminate any need for post work.”

Freelance travel journalist @jennweatherhead concurs, “Sunrise and sunset photos are always my most liked. That golden glow gives the most incredible natural filter on any pictures.

I also love the saturation of colour you get at these times.”

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Shane Battier is returning to the Miami Heat as a member of the front office in the new role of director of basketball development and analytics

up for Crosby as Team Canada relaxed 1,000 Pens edge Jets in OT ahead of title defence nhl

Sidney Crosby ended his march to 1,000 career points in typically unselfish fashion. The Pittsburgh Penguins star wasted little time before starting his quest for the next thousand.

The Pittsburgh captain fed Chris Kunitz for a first-period goal against Winnipeg on Thursday to become the 86th player in NHL history to reach the 1,000-point plateau, added an assist on Phil Kessel’s game-tying goal in the third and then put the winner past Connor Hellebuyck with 21 seconds left in overtime as the Penguins escaped with a 4-3 victory.

Crosby finished with three points to push his total 1,002.

Evgeni Malkin also scored for Pittsburgh, while Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 44 shots for the Penguins, who improved to 6-0-2 since the All-Star

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No provincial grind for Carey & team before the Scotties Chelsea Carey returns to the Canadian women’s curling championship feeling tighter with her team and oddly rested.

Among the bonuses for winning the Scotties Tournament of Hearts is an automatic berth in the next one as Team Canada.

So defending champions Carey, third Amy Nixon, second Jocelyn Peterman and lead Laine Peters avoided the grind of provincial playdowns this year. The Calgary team heads to St. Catharines, Ont., for this year’s event starting Saturday with full gas tanks.

“The biggest thing that’s different is you don’t have to win your provincial, so you have all this time,” Carey said. “That’s been kind of weird, but kind of nice that it’s been a little slower pace leading up for us.”

They’ll need their reserves to repeat as Canadian champions, says the skip.

“It’s a long, long week and it’s an absolute grind,” Carey said. “I always laugh at people who say, ‘You went to this town. What did you see?’ I’m like, ‘Nothing.’

You play two games a day and have a nap in between because you have to. You just won’t survive the week otherwise.

“We’re coming in a little more rested than probably most of the other teams. Maybe that’s a good thing, maybe that’s a bad thing, I don’t know, but I like it.”

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break. Patrik Laine scored his 27th for Winnipeg. Paul Postma collected his first and Dustin Byfuglien his eighth for the Jets. Hellebuyck made 35 saves, but couldn’t get a handle on Crosby’s 31st of the season and 369th goal of his career.

Crosby insisted as the milestone approached that he’d be happy once it was out of the way so the focus could swing back to Pittsburgh’s chase of first-place Washington in the relentlessly competitive Metropolitan Division.

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IN BRIEF

Team Canada skip Chelsea Carey, centre, makes a shot as her teammates, second Jocelyn Peterman, left, and lead Laine Peters, train in Calgary on Monday. Carey returns to the Scotties feeling tighter with her team and oddly rested. Jeff McIntosh/THE CANADIAN PRESS

claimed the 2016 Tournament progress. Now in their second of Hearts in Grande Prairie in season together, they’re more Carey’s first in tune with year skipping each other’s the team. She personalities drew to the and modes of eight-foot ring It’s been a slower communication, with her final can help pace leading up which shot to beat them ride out for us.

Northern Onthe emotional tario’s Krista highs and lows Chelsea Carey McCarville 7-6 at nationals, acin the final. cording to the skip.

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In the 55 years of the Canadian women’s championship, seven teams have won back-toback titles: Rachel Homan, Jennifer Jones, Kelly Scott, Colleen Jones, Sandra Schmirler, Heather Houston and Vera Pezer.

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Former Toronto goalie joins Edmonton FC ranks Former Toronto FC goalkeeper Chris Konopka has joined FC Edmonton of the North American Soccer League.

The 31-year-old New Jersey native spent time with Philadelphia, the New York Red Bulls and Kansas City but started just two MLS games before a breakthrough 2015 that saw him start 22 games for Toronto. The Canadian Press Hat tricks for Zlatan, Dzeko Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Edin Dzeko, two of Europe’s most prolific strikers, scored hat tricks to push Manchester United and Roma to the brink of the Europa League last 16 on Thursday.

Ibrahimovic helped United dispatch Saint-Etienne 3-0 at Old Trafford in the first leg of their last-32 match. Dzeko hit three for Roma in a 4-0 win at Villarreal. the associated press

Canada showing its might at Four Continents event Canada’s Gabrielle Daleman and Kaetlyn Osmond dominated the women’s short program at the ISU Four Continents figure skating championships on Thursday in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Daleman leads after scoring 68.25 points.

Osmond (68.21) is in second.

Canada’s Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir also lead after the short program in ice dance.

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Seemingly bad blood between ex-teammates still lingers The next time Russell Westbrook walks into a locker-room to get dressed for a game, Kevin Durant will be there and donning the same uniform.

Get ready for perhaps the best subplot of All-Star Weekend.

Russ and KD, together again.

The former Oklahoma City teammates are going to be Western Conference teammates on Sunday night when the league holds its annual All-Star Game in New Orleans. And after the Thunder went into the break by beating the New York Knicks on Wednesday night, the inevitable question was posed to Westbrook: Are you ready for this?

“I’m excited about All-Star Weekend,” said Westbrook, the two-time reigning All-Star MVP. “I think in general, just being able to be there and enjoy the opportunity ... humbled by the opportunity to be there.”

So the question was sidestepped.

It’ll get asked to both Westbrook and Durant again — likely many, many times — over the coming days.

They’ve been on the same court together three times this season, Durant and his new Golden State Warriors teammates beating Westbrook and

Kevin Durant and the Warriors have beaten Russell Westbrook and the Thunder in each of their three meetings this season. Ezra Shaw/Getty images

the Thunder all three times — most recently last weekend in Oklahoma City, when Durant and Westbrook went 1-on-1 at times and even jawed at each other a bit during the game.

This will be different.

Probably awkward, too.

“I don’t know,” Westbrook said. “We’re going to find out.”

It was the breakup that shook the NBA last summer: Durant left Oklahoma City as a free agent and chose to sign with Golden State, a team that won the NBA title in 2015, went to The Finals again last season and has the league’s best record this

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Four Warriors have been named all-stars: Durant, Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green. Steve Kerr will coach the West.

season. The Warriors already were a super team, and then they landed another superstar.

Durant insists he tries to ignore anyone who criticized his decision.

“I define my career, at the end of the day,” Durant said. “And it’s pretty damn good so far.”

Durant and Westbrook had great seasons with the Thunder, even getting to the 2012 NBA Finals where they lost to Miami in five games, but never were able to hoist a championship banner together.

So Durant moved on, and their relationship — whatever it was — essentially ended.

“He plays for his team. I play for my team,” Westbrook said.

“Let him do his thing. I do my thing. And that’s it, plain and simple.” The Associated Press

It might be love at first bet for Eugenie Bouchard.

The Canadian tennis star and University of Missouri marketing student John Goehrke, who won a date with Bouchard thanks to a wager on Super Bowl 51’s winner, had such a good time during a rendezvous at the Brooklyn Nets game on Wednesday night that another romantic evening could be in the cards.

“For sure,” Bouchard said when asked by a TMZ reporter if there would be a second date, as she left the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

The Canadian considered herself lucky that Goehrke was a normal guy, considering Internet horror stories. The Chicago native praised Bouchard for going ahead with the date despite his anonymity.

“The most amazing part is that she agreed to it without knowing who I was,” he said.

Bouchard made headlines

earlier this month when she made a bet with Goehrke over Twitter that the Atlanta Falcons would win the game after jumping out to a 28-3 thirdquarter lead.

But Tom Brady and his New England Patriots orchestrated a historic comeback victory, winning 34-28 in overtime.

Bouchard, who docum e n t e d much of the night on her Eugenie Snapchat acBouchard count, posted Getty images a video Thursday morning of herself opening up a gift from Goehrke, a pair of earrings from renowned jewelry company Tiffany’s.

“A girl always loves a pair of Tiffany’s earring,” she said in the video. “Thank you, John.”

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IN BRIEF Latos joins Jays, attends spring-training camp The Toronto Blue Jays signed right-hander Mat Latos to a minor-league deal Thursday with an invitation to major-league camp.

Latos spent last season with the Chicago White Sox and Washington Nationals.

He posted a 7-3 record with a 4.89 earned-run average and 42 strikeouts.

The eight-year veteran has 186 career starts under his belt. The Canadian Press

Slash on linesman nets Vermette 10-game ban Anaheim Ducks forward Antoine Vermette was suspended for 10 games on Thursday for slashing a linesman in apparent anger after a faceoff.

Vermette slapped his stick against the back of linesman Shandor Alphonso’s legs after losing a faceoff to Minnesota captain Mikko Koivu during the third period of the Ducks’ 1-0 win Tuesday. The Associated Press

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Sweet Roasted Butternut Squash and Sweet Pear Soup photo: Maya Visnyei

Ceri Marsh & Laura Keogh

For Metro Canada This soup has a subtle sweetness that is the perfect pairing with a grilled cheese.

Ready in 1 hour 10 minutes Prep time: 20 minutes Cook time: 50 minutes Serves 4 Ingredients • 2 lb. butternut squash, peeled, seeded and cut into 2 inch chunks • 3 shallots, quartered • 3 heirloom carrots, cut lengthwise and then in half • 2 cloves garlic • 2 Tbsp olive oil • 1/2 tsp salt, divided • 3 cup vegetable broth • 1 cup milk • 1/2 cup apple cider or water • 3/4 cup pear purée

• our cream or Greek style yogurt for garnish Directions 1. Preheat oven to 400.

2. Place squash, shallots, carrots and garlic in a large bowl and toss with olive oil and 1/4 teaspoon salt.

3. Spread vegetables in a single layer on a large, rimmed baking sheet and roast 50 to 55 minutes, or until fork tender. Let cool.

4. Place vegetables and 2 cups of vegetable broth into a blender and purée until smooth. Pour into a large saucepan over mediumlow heat and stir in remaining broth, milk, water or apple cider, pear purée and remaining salt. Cook about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.

5. Serve with Greek style yogurt or sour cream. for more meal ideas, VISIT sweetpotatochronicles.com

Across 1. Ms. Reinking of “All That Jazz” (1979) 4. Fossil resin 9. Dairy products brand, __ _’Lakes 14. Ski-__ 15. Debonair 16. Tree variety 17. OWN series: 2 wds.

20. Quasi 21. Chicago’s li’l state 22. Fashion designer Bob who created costumes for “The Carol Burnett Show” 23. Mr. Baldwin’s 25. Ballroom dance, __ Doble 26. Li’l Florida city 28. Fashion sense 30. Get energized: 2 wds.

34. Sharpen up on sharpening skills 36. “__ Haw” 38. Celtic language 39. Modernist painters based in Montreal in the Jazz Age: 3 wds.

42. Jazz vocalist Ms. Anderson 43. ‘_’ __ for Manitoba 44. Daunt 45. Fork-tailed sea birds 47. Less dangerous 49. Chicago trains 50. Gangster groupings 52. Castaway’s new home 54. Like bits of salt 57. Paul McCartney & Wings song 58. Mr. DeLuca-Ta-

masi, Design Expert on “Cityline” 61. 1979 Neil Young & Crazy Horse album: 3 wds.

64. Merge 65. Sort of tie 66. Stage actress Ms. Hagen 67. Rolling Stones:

“__ of Burden” 68. Submachine guns of WWII 69. Initials-sharers of the star of “Carrie” (1976) Down 1. Hubbubs 2. Slangy negative

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3. Shampoo category: 2 wds.

4. Fireplace’s swept up residue 5. Adagio or Glissando or Pizzicato: 2 wds.

6. Gutsy 7. Malefic 8. TKO caller 9. ‘The house’, in

It’s all in The Stars Your daily horoscope by Francis Drake Aries March 21 - April 20 Take care of banking details and redtape issues like inheritances, taxes, debt and insurance matters today. It will feel good to get some of these things out of the way.

Cancer June 22 - July 23 Set aside some time today to play and have fun. Enjoy sports events, playful times with children or perhaps a fun flirtation. You need a break today!

Libra Sept. 24 - Oct. 23 Money, cash flow or something to do with a possession that you own will be your focus today.

When it comes to money and finances, information is power.

Capricorn Dec. 22 - Jan. 20 A conversation with a female acquaintance will be important today. Perhaps you’ll want to share your hopes and dreams for the future with someone.

Taurus April 21 - May 21 Today the Moon is in a sign that is opposite from Taurus, which means you have to cooperate with others.

This simply requires some tolerance and patience. No biggie.

Leo July 24 - Aug. 23 Home, family and real estate will be your focus today. Perhaps a conversation with a female family member (especially a parent) will be important.

Scorpio Oct. 24 - Nov. 22 Today the Moon is in your sign, which will make you more emotional than usual. This is why you might overreact when talking to others. Keep this in mind.

Aquarius Jan. 21 - Feb. 19 Personal details about your private life will become public today. This is because you are having a moment that is high-viz, especially in the eyes of bosses and VIPs.

Gemini May 22 - June 21 Because you want to get better organized today, set aside 20 minutes to tidy up your workspace or where you live. Even a little effort will make you happy with the results.

Virgo Aug. 24 - Sept. 23 You have a strong need to talk to others today. You don’t want to have superficial chitchat. You want to know what’s happening, and you want to share your own experiences as well.

Sagittarius Nov. 23 - Dec. 21 Today you will prefer to be low-key and work behind the scenes or alone. Some days we like publicity; some days we don’t.

Pisces Feb. 20 - March 20 Do something different today.

Shake up your routine to satisfy your urge for a little adventure. You also want to learn something new

Spain: 2 wds.

10. Everybody taking part in the event 11. Fargo, _. __.

12. Lucille’s love 13. “The ‘__ ‘e knows above a bit...” - Rudyard Kipling 18. Gaspe ‘garlic’ 19. Overseas MTV hon-

our [acronym] 24. Medieval labourer 25. Orange’s covering 26. William __ (British remixer/music producer) 27. “Superman” (1978) star Christopher 29. Tibet’s capital 31. Greek Myth: Titan who gave mankind fire after stealing it from Mount Olympus 32. Regular 33. English diarist, Samuel __ (b.1633 - d.1703) 35. Holding hot roasters helpers: 2 wds.

37. Greg on “The Brady Bunch”: 2 wds.

40. Angry cat’s warning 41. “__, Interrupted” (1999) 46. 14-line poem 48. Cutthroat 51. “Cheerio.”

53. ‘Legal’ suffix 54. Chuck wagon food 55. Old Scandinavian symbol 56. Laos’ location 57. “Why surely you __!”

59. High-rise dwellings, for short 60. “That __ __ it should be.”

62. ‘_’ __ in Vernon 63. Fire dept. ranks

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